Currently I am working on a family portrait. The photo was taken in our garden specifically to bring it on canvas. In October 2014 I began to trace dark and light parts of the image by outlining them on tracing paper. This linear graphic was scaled-down and projected onto the canvas where I copied the outline of the projection and started to color the outlined shapes in bright violet or black according to the differentiation I made in the first step. The whole canvas has been painted red to reduce the soaking of the canvas for the next color layers. After that the next color layers and final layers were put on step by step...

In march 2019 I started sketching a photorealistic pencil drawing of a portrait photo of Albert Einstein. His face is a proper model to get familiar with portrait drawing due to his unique facial traits, his deep wrinkles and his interesting, leathery skin structure. Once I got used to the proportions and shapes of the wrinkles a realistic image was reached through a dark shading, sharp contours and precise scratches in the paper with the pencil point for a three-dimensional effect and an even more emphasized contrast. The most important part of a portrait is the eyes as the similarity between the drawing and the original image depends on the right look in one’s eyes. This expression is modified with the proportion and shape of the eyes and eye socket as well as the form and position of the iris and the point of light reflecting in the eye.